The privacy and safety of your financial information
is Florida Gulf Bank's utmost concern. Your transactions
are as safe as current technology allows them to
be. Florida Gulf Bank works with cutting edge technology
partners to ensure that the most secure environment
available is made possible for our valued customers.
We offer you worry free Online Banking. You can
be completely confident of the following security
measures:
Our system ensures that data exchanged between your
PC and our computers is encrypted with 128-bit encryption-the
strongest encryption available. Encryption is accomplished
through Secure Sockets Layers (SSL)which utilize
mathematical formulas to "encrypt" or
hide information from prying eyes on the Internet.
Additionally, if SSL detects that data was added
or deleted after you sent it to the Bank, the connection
will be severed in order to guard against any tampering.
The most popular browsers have the SSL security
feature built in. How can you tell if your browser
is secure? Click
Here.
Our computer system does not connect directly to
the Internet. It is isolated from the network via
a "firewall". A firewall is a combination
of software and hardware products that designate
parameters, control and limit the access that outside
computers have to the Banks internal network and
databases. You can feel secure knowing that our
firewall protects your personal information from
unauthorized access.
Access ID's and passwords are isolated from the
Internet by being stored on a secure computer. This
way the passwords and access ID's can never be accessed
or downloaded by anyone on the Internet. Additionally,
user passwords can vary from four to eight characters,
which means the chance of randomly guessing a password
is less than one in 1 billion! The system also checks
for invalid logins and automatically disallows a
user after three invalid attempts. This prohibits
the "hacker" from gaining access to our
system thus protecting your accounts.
You will be responsible for maintaining one of the
most important security measures, your access ID
and password. After logging in with your initial
Florida Gulf Bank Online Banking access ID and password,
you will be responsible for changing the initial
access ID and password to your personally selected
ID and password. Be sure to keep your newly selected
password a secret. Memorize it, or write it down
and keep it in a safe place. It is not recommended
you carry your password in your purse or wallet.
Make sure no one watches you enter your password
and always close your browser when leaving the computer.
Make sure you regularly scan your computer for viruses
that could be used to capture password keystrokes.
You ultimately hold the key to your password security.
Not even a bank employee knows your password.
